It’s quite a selective service with just 1-2 bets per week on average for our trial so far, which means it is easy to follow and doesn’t involve too much work.
With nine out of the ten bets so far having been winners, we couldn’t ask for much more really.
Combat sports like MMA and boxing are becoming increasingly popular to bet on these days and there have been more tipsters popping up in these genres recently too.
We have previously given passed ratings to services like Premium Boxing Tips and Lucrative MMA Betting tips after trials here at Honest Betting Reviews.
The latest service we are looking at today looks promising too and it is called Rob Brown Betting.
Rob says he takes a long-term approach to his betting and treats it as an analytical, process-driven investment.
His tips have been proofed to the bettin.gs site since 2016 and in that time he has made an impressive 237 units profit at a return on investment (ROI) of 12%.
That has been achieved with a very good strike rate of 61%, meaning a high proportion of winners.
Every year since he started has been a profitable one and the results graph shows a nice upward trend.
So this has all the attributes we like to see from a tipping service – strong, consistent long-term results with good metrics in terms of ROI and strike rate.
As ever though we will have to wait to see how it performs under a live trial before we draw any conclusions.
Results will be updated here as we go along so you can see how Rob is getting on.
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an impressive 246 points.
Just a note in case you are interested that Craig has recently published a book “Edwards Snooker Form 2022” which is available on Amazon. We have been working our way through it and found it to be an excellent resource for snooker betting, with lots of hints and strategies in there to make use of.
We saw some of them in action at the World Championships for example, where Craig made a commendable 30 points profit over the event (including qualifiers).
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an impressive 240 points.
Just a note in case you are interested that Craig has recently published a book “Edwards Snooker Form 2022” which is available on Amazon. It has been getting good reviews and sounds like a valuable insight from a former pro snooker player turned pro gambler.
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an impressive 300 points.
Things really came good for them last month when they picked out Hudson Swafford at 250/1 for the American Express tournament.
That netted over 150 points profit and underlines what we have said many times about golf betting in terms of having patience and a big betting bank so you can really enjoy these winners when they come in.
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an impressive 90 points.
As mentioned before the volume of bets is very high with this service, particularly if you follow both the golf and snooker tips, so it’s worth bearing that in mind if you’re thinking of following the service.
As mentioned in previous updates, the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an excellent 130 points.
Just to note that the figures for the service for 2021 are as follows:-
Overall: 2187 bets, ROI 18.71%
Golf Outright: 708 bets, 38.44% ROI
Golf Place: 512 bets, -0.64% ROI
Snooker: 922 bets, 15.15% ROI
So it was really the golf place that dragged the ROI down a little, in particular in the first half of the year. However, the overall stats are still very commendable with an ROI of 19% and the golf outright bets had an excellent year with a 38% ROI.
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an excellent 120 points.
As mentioned before the volume of bets is very high with this service, particularly if you follow both the golf and snooker tips, so it’s worth bearing that in mind if you’re thinking of following the service.
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be an excellent 190 points.
There have been a few placed finishes since our last update but no big winners, although they were very close to a 50/1 winner with Adri Arnaus at the Open de Espana last week who missed a short putt for the win and then lost in a playoff.
That was pretty unlucky to say the least but that is golf betting for you. Very small margins are involved, but the luck tends to balance out in the long run (or so they say!).
It’s worth noting that the staking with this service is very low. The average stake so far for example is just 0.15 points. So it might be reasonable to times the stakes by 10 to get them on par with most services we review here.
On that basis the profit so far would actually be a fantastic 190 points.
That’s thanks to winners like Patrick Cantlay at 30/1, Ross McGowan who was placed at 125/1 (win price 630/1) and Top 20 at 18/1 and a number of good placed and Top 20 finishes.
So the trial couldn’t have got off to a better start really. If you planning on joining the service we would appreciate it if you could mention you heard about Edwards from here.
We are starting a new trial today of a service called Edwards Tips.
This is a combined golf and snooker service where you can subscribe to either or both sets of tips.
It is run by Craig Edwards, an ex-pro snooker player turned sports betting tipster. He reached the first round of the 1991 World Snooker Championship and the last 16 of the European Open, so knows his way around the baize.
That seems to have translated into a promising career as a tipster and Craig uses his in-depth knowledge of the game and players to find an edge over the markets. He also has a passion for golf betting and uses his expertise and a qualitative approach to produce his selections.
The results published on Craig’s website are excellent, with 746 points profit made at a return on investment of over 30%.
That includes some massive winners at prices of up to 250/1.
The breakdown in profit by sport is that the golf tips have contributed 610 points profit whilst the snooker has provided 143 points profit.
We followed the service in a personal capacity last year and can vouch that the results on the website for last year are accurate.
Craig tips in a variety of markets, including top 20 and outright on the golf, and match odds, player centuries, handicaps and other markets on the snooker.
The main snooker season is just about to get underway so it’s a good time to start a review from that point of view.
We will of course update results here as we along.
Horse racing and football service Bets for Today VIP Tips has slipped back somewhat lately, with a loss of £186 made to £20 stakes since our last update.
That means they are now £326 up for our trial overall at advised prices.
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned last time there are a lot of bets to put on if you follow every system so you may wish to pick and choose – and there are various price tiers depending on how many service you wish to follow.
The free service includes just the football double and horse racing each-way, all the way up to the VIP Platinum which includes everything listed above, but there are lots of options in between.
Horse racing and football service Bets for Today VIP Tips has bounced back nicely in recent times, with a profit of £254 made to £20 stakes since our last update.
That means they are now £512 up for our trial overall at advised prices.
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned last time there are a lot of bets to put on if you follow every system so you may wish to pick and choose – and there are various price tiers depending on how many service you wish to follow.
The free service includes just the football double and horse racing each-way, all the way up to the VIP Platinum which includes everything listed above, but there are lots of options in between.
It’s been a tough time lately for horse racing and football service Bets for Today VIP Tips, with a loss of £705 made to £20 stakes since our last update.
However, they are still £258 up for our trial overall at advised prices.
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned last time there are a lot of bets to put on if you follow every system so you may wish to pick and choose – and there are various price tiers depending on how many service you wish to follow.
The free service includes just the football double and horse racing each-way, all the way up to the VIP Platinum which includes everything listed above, but there are lots of options in between.
Something of a dip for horse racing and football service Bets for Today VIP Tips over the last month, with a loss of £388 made to £20 stakes since our last update.
However, they are still £963 up for our trial overall at advised prices.
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned last time there are a lot of bets to put on if you follow every system so you may wish to pick and choose – and there are various price tiers depending on how many service you wish to follow.
The free service includes just the football double and horse racing each-way, all the way up to the VIP Platinum which includes everything listed above, but there are lots of options in between.
The good form has continued for horse racing and football service Bets for Today VIP Tips, with a profit of £78 made to £20 stakes since our last update.
That means they are now £1351 up for our trial overall at advised prices.
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned last time there are a lot of bets to put on if you follow every system so you may wish to pick and choose – and there are various price tiers depending on how many service you wish to follow.
All of them are very reasonable though given the results achieved so far.
It’s been a very strong start to our trial of Bets for Today VIP Tips, with a profit of £1273 made so far to £20 stakes (or 64 points profit to 1 point stakes).
That is made up of the following results across their various systems:-
As mentioned when opening our review, there are a quite of lot of bets to follow – although thankfully not every system has bets each day so some days there are only a couple of bets.
And of course you can choose to follow as many or as few of the systems as you wish.
So far though all but one of the systems is ahead for our trial so it’s been a very impressive start to our trial from this service.
We are starting a new trial of a combined football and horse racing service called VIP Tips from the Bets for Today tipster platform.
They’ve been giving out free racing and football tips since September 2016, and according to the results published on the Bets for Today website, they have performed ridiculously well!
In May, they coupled them with other great value betting opportunities and created different levels of tips:
– VIP Free
– VIP Silver
– VIP Gold
– VIP Platinum
Visitors/members can still get free racing and football tips, and they can get even more now too for an excellent introductory price.
The results as we say are top notch, with the breakdown as follows (all based on £20 stakes):-
Football Tips
Profit/Loss
Double
+£3,748
Treble
+£4,267
Accas
+£3,065
Racing Tips
Each Way Earner
+£371
Nap of the day
+£2,301
Double
-£64
Lucky 15
+£76
Price Boosts
Value boosts
+£108
You can get different groups of tips depending on which level of membership you go for.
The most basic are the free tips, which include the horse racing daily each-way bet and the football daily double, right up to the Platinum VIP membership which comes in at just £19.99 per quarter and includes everything.
If they can repeat the previous results in our trial then this would be an extremely cheap option for top quality betting tips.
As ever we will have to see how they get on under live trial conditions but it does look very promising anyway.
The sport of MMA (mixed martial arts) is becoming more popular these days, with big fights in the UFC receiving big audiences and some of the stars becoming celebrities.
With this popularity has of course come more betting interest and most bookies now price up markets for the big fights.
And of course, with there being a decent amount of betting, there are now some budding new tipsters emerging in the field.
We ended up following this tipster for 24 months in total, which is one of the longest reviews we have conducted here at HBR.
Partly that was because we were following the tips in a personal capacity before launching the formal review.
In any event, it gave us a very good sample size of over 820 bets for the review.
And over that time the results stood up very well, with 159 points profit being made in total.
As you can see from the graph below, it was very steady progress throughout the trial, with only a slight dip towards the end (but signs of a turnaround 0ver the last few bets):
The strike rate was very healthy at 44% and the return on investment (ROI) solid at 10%.
They also have some YouTube content available, which you can check out here.
Overall then it’s been a very successful trial and we are happy to award the Lucrative MMA Betting Tipster a PASSED rating.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are available through logging into the website and are generally posted early in the week (Monday and Tuesday) with some other bets coming later in the week.
Availability of prices: Prices are generally available, although on some of the more niche markets they can be affected so it’s helpful to have a variety of bookie accounts and to act quickly upon tips being posted.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 44%, which is very solid and meant a steady stream of winners throughout the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t see a recommended betting bank for the service but used a 150 point bank for the purposes of our trial. Staking is quite variable, ranging from 0.1 points all the way up to 11 points, so that is something to be aware of. The average stake is 1.8 points though so a 150 point bank with the high strike rate seems reasonable to us.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are $96 per month, $279 per quarter, $499 for six months or $759 per year. Those are a little on the high side, although in the MMA space are not unusual and in fact cheaper than some alternatives.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
We ran an extended 24 month trial of the Lucrative MMA Betting Tipster, and it performed very well, producing 159 points profit in total.
That was achieved with a strong strike rate of 44% and a solid ROI of 10%. We are happy to award the service a PASSED rating therefore and is well worth checking out if you are a fan of MMA – or even if you’re not!
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code “HBR10” at checkout.
We are looking to continue proofing this service until the end of the year and then rounding off the review at that point, which will give us a very solid body of results.
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking out this service based on the results of our trial to date.
This has been an impressive trial, with solid profit made consistently throughout. Just what we like to see.
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking out this service based on the results of our trial to date.
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking out this service based on the results of our trial to date.
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking out this service based on the results of our trial to date.
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking this service out if you are a fan of MMA – or even if you’re not!
Please note you can get 10% off membership by using the special discount code HBR10 at checkout. Well worth checking this service out if you are a fan of MMA – or even if you’re not!
They also have some YouTube content available. Here is a video where they detail one mistake they constantly see in the MMA betting market and how you can take advantage of it:
The world of MMA is fully back in action now after taking a break over xmas/new year so there are lots of bets coming through now. James who runs Lucrative MMA also now posts some free tips and Youtube analysis of his picks both of which are well worth checking out.
Just a reminder that we have been following this service on a private basis since January, so have included the full results since then, which as we say have been very good.
The sport of MMA (mixed martial arts) is becoming more popular these days, with big fights in the UFC receiving big audiences and some of the stars becoming celebrities.
With this popularity has of course come more betting interest and most bookies now price up markets for the big fights.
And of course, with there being a decent amount of betting, there are now some promising tipsters emerging in the field.
This is a service that has been running for just over a year now and has amassed some very impressive results with 265 points profit made to date.
That has been achieved with an excellent return on investment of 27% and a high strike rate of 53%, so over half of the bets so far have been winners.
We have actually been receiving the tips since January so can verify those results. There are detailed write-ups for the tips from which you can see that James, who runs the service, has a great knowledge of MMA.
So we will formally kick off our review today but will include results from when we started receiving the tips. Updates will be posted here as we go along as usual.
Something for a reversal for UFC Tips(Punt Hub) over the last month, with a loss of 67 points made for the short-term picks and 9 points for the long-term picks since our last update.
That means the short-term picks are 19 points down for our trial overall and the long-term picks are 1 point down.
Just a reminder that there are two ways of following this service – the short term bankroll is a bank for that one evening, 100 units spread across all the selections for that fight night.
The long-term is a more traditional approach of having a 100 point bank and backing the selections on a continual basis week-to-week.
We will record both here for information purposes but the main one we will focus on is the long-term one as that is what our reviews normally focus on.
It’s been a good start to our trial of UFC Tips(Punt Hub), with a profit of 48 points made for the short-term picks and 8 points for the long-term picks so far.
Just a reminder that there are two ways of following this service – the short term bankroll is a bankroll for that one evening, 100 units spread across all the selections for that fight night.
The long-term is a more traditional of having a 100 point bank and backing the selections on a continual basis week-to-week.
We will record both here for information purposes but the main one we will focus on is the long-term one as that is what our reviews normally focus on.
Mixed martial arts (MMA) is an increasingly popular sport to bet on and we have reviewed two good services in the field in recent times (check them out here and here).
Well today we are starting a new trial of another MMA service, UFC Tips from the Punt Hub stable of tipsters.
It’s a relatively new service having just launched in June but results so far look very encouraging. To date they have made 42 points profit at an excellent ROI of 49%.
They have two experts providing the selections and the tips come in a variety of markets including: to win the fight, how the fight ends and number of rounds. There are single bets and also parlays (accumulators).
The service offers two staking systems – a short term and a long term. The short term is a bank you would just use for that weekend’s fights, as if you were just following the service for that event. On the other hand the long-term is more traditional form of using a 100 point bank and following the tips on a continual basis.
As all our reviews use the latter staking method that is what we will use for this trial.
The good news is that the service is free at the moment as it’s still in its early phases so you can join up and follow along for free if you like.
In any event, we will undertake our standard review process and will report back soon on how things are going.
TheSuper Sports Capperis a multi-sports service from Betting Gods. It covers NBA, NFL, and major UK football and European basketball which is quite a wide variety of events from around the world.
It operates in fairly niche markets like players to score above a number of points or have a certain number of shots on target in a game.
We followed the service for six months which gave us a very good sample size of over 470 bets.
In that the Super Sports Capper made an excellent 97 points profit, which represented a return on capital (or bank growth) of 127%.
The strike rate was high at 60%, meaning well over half the bets were winners. And the return on investment was also strong for a strike rate that high, at 11%.
It was pretty steady progress throughout the trial, as you can see in the graph below:-
That’s just the kind of profit graph we like to see.
The only issue we experienced with the service was the odds availability, with the markets tipped on being very niche.
There were some instances where the odds were quite sensitive, although this didn’t happen every time and in some cases it was only by a few ticks.
So in our experience it didn’t make a huge difference to results, but is worth bearing in mind if you are thinking of following the service.
It might be reasonable for example to expect up to 20% less profit than the official results. You might end up doing better than that if you have access to a wide variety of bookies accounts and act very quickly, but setting expectations at the outset to miss some of the advised prices is probably a good idea.
In any event, even allowing for some price sensitivity the results are still excellent and we are happy to award this service a PASSED rating after a strong six month trial.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The bets are normally sent out in the morning around 8-10am UK time, although there are sometimes a few bets later in the morning. With 2-3 bets per day on average it’s not too onerous, although with the markets being very niche it can take a while to find them sometimes.
Availability of prices: As mentioned above, some of the prices did get punted in, so it would be realistic to expect to take a few ticks lower than the advised prices in some cases.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 60%, which is very good and meant a high proportion of winnings bets throughout the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: A 75 point betting bank is recommended for following the service, which seems a bit small to us as the average stake is around 2 points per bet. We think a 100 point bank would be more appropriate for following this service.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are £1.99 for first 15 days then £37 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Super Sports Capper is a multi-sports tipster operating in a variety of niche betting markets. It made an impressive 97 points profit during our trial, with strong metrics of a 60% strike rate and 11% ROI.
The only slight issue with the service is price availability due to the unusual markets it operates in, but we wouldn’t say that was too severe by any means.
Even allowing for a slight adjustment for that, the results were still excellent and it’s well worthy of a resounding PASSED rating from us.
Just a word on odds availability as this is some of the markets tipped in are very niche with this service. Taking today for example there were two tips sent out around an hour and a half ago.
On one bet the best odds available to us are 1.83, which was the advised price (not having access to Ladbrokes Australia which has the best advised odds of 1.87), so that is good.
On the other bet the advised price was 1.83 (or 1.86 if you have access to Sportsbet Aus), and we are currently able to obtain odds of 1.80.
So pretty good price availability there, although not quite the advised prices. Acting more quickly of course you may have been able to achieve the top prices, but this gives a snapshot around an hour and a half after tips were released.
There have been a wide variety of sports covered over the last month including NBA, football, AFL, tennis and rugby.
Normally we’d say it’s tough to make a profit across so many sports but this tipster is managing it so far with considerable success. Let’s see if that continues.
As we mentioned when commencing the review, this service bets in very niche markets like player and team points. As such prices can be quite sensitive.
For example, when looking at today’s two selections – one of them was under 2.5 tries for a certain team, advised at 1.80 at B365 and that is still available a couple of hours after the tip was sent out.
However, for the other tip, which is a team points total, the tip was for under 25.5 points at advised odds of 2.00 but now the odds are 1.72 and the line is under 24.5 points.
So quite a significant shift on the second tip – that is something to watch out for as the trial progresses in terms of the availability of the odds and the overall effect on profits.
Today we are starting a new review of an interesting multi-sports service from Betting Gods called the Super Sports Capper.
The service covers NBA, NFL, and major UK football and European basketball which is quite a wide variety of events from around the world.
The results to date look extremely impressive, with over 190 points profit made since starting proofing to Betting Gods in September 2020.
What stands out though are the metrics, with a return on investment of 25% at the same time as hitting a strike rate of 72%, which is a supreme combination. Usually with a strike rate that high you would expect the ROI to be below 10% and often below 5%, even for professional bettors. Whether that can be maintained in the long run remains to be seen of course.
The tips are provided by a chap called Allan who apparently spends his days studying team form, news, injuries, betting markets and multiple other factors to deliver a solid winning service. He says his own money goes on the bets as well – of course we would expect nothing less!
In terms of the average monthly profit, that has been over £900 so far which would be a great bit of extra income if it could be maintained.
One thing we note from looking at the results is that they bet in quite niche markets like players to score above a number of points or have a certain number of shots on target. So it will be interesting to see the availability of prices on those markets.
All in all it looks very promising though so we are eager to get this review going. As usual we will post updates here as we go along.
Geek – One who passionately engages in one or more things to extreme levels.
That’s the definition of a geek according to Urban Dictionary and seems about right to us.
In the case of The Basketball Geekthe description appears quite apt. They provide tips in a variety of basketball leagues around the world and clearly have an exceptional level of expertise.
The markets tipped include match odds, which cover the majority of bets, but also handicaps and over/unders.
After an extended 12 month trial they made an excellent 147 points profit, which represented a near tripling of the recommended 75 point betting bank.
Those results were achieved with a decent strike rate of 36% and a solid return on investment (ROI) of 9%.
We managed to gather an excellent sample size of over 1600 bets, so there can be no doubt that this tipster demonstrated a clear edge over the market during our review.
As you can see from the graph below, the profit was very steady throughout our trial, with a slight flattening out towards the end:
The only issue we could find with the service was odds availability, which we will deal with further below in our service breakdown.
In terms of the results at advised prices however, they were undoubtedly top class and it’s a definite PASSED rating for The Basketball Geek from us.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: It’s quite a high volume service with around 4-5 bets per day on average, so does require a little bit of work in following. Tips are sent out by email, usually around 8am UK time.
Availability of prices: As mentioned above, this was our main concern with the service as we did witness quite a bit of pressure on prices during our trial. As many of the markets tipped in are quite niche, it doesn’t take a great deal of money to move them and we could see that in action here.
That’s not to say that prices moved in on every selection – on some occasions the advised prices were still available even a couple of hours after tips were sent out. And certainly having a Pinnacle and Bet 365 account would be a significant advantage if following this service. But even then, we would say that realistically it would be tough to always match the results at advised prices.
It would be realistic to expect your profits to be somewhere between 20-30% lower than the official ones we would say, if you have access to a decent number of bookie accounts and act quickly after tips are sent out.
That still leaves a very good profit though even taking this into account and certainly it is not a Hugh Taylor or Pricewise situation where odds are smashed in half instantly after being sent out.
Given the markets tipped in are fairly niche, it would not be practical to follow this service on Betfair, where some of the markets are not even available.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 36%, which is solid enough and meant steady returns throughout the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: A 75 point betting bank is recommended for following the service and that seems pretty fair to us, although you could use a 100 point bank to be on the safe side.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are £1.99 for first 15 days then £37 per month.
Or there are special offers of £39 for the first 3 months (then £37/month) or £59 for the first 6 months (then £37/month). Those costs are pretty reasonable given the results achieved to date.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
We haven’t come across many basketball tipsters in our time running Honest Betting Reviews but we are certainly glad we found this one.
With an excellent profit of 147 points during our 12 month trial, which represented a near-tripling of the betting bank, it’s a clear PASSED rating from us.
The only concern we have with the service is price availability as the markets tipped in tend to be quite niche, so it can be tough to match the advised prices on occasion. We think it is realistic to expect a slight reduction on the official results – perhaps 20-30% in total if you act quickly and have access to a fair range of bookie accounts.
Overall you should still be able to achieve close to the advised price results though, which as we say were excellent and well deserving of a passed rating for The Basketball Geek.
Just a reminder that bets come in leagues all over the world and in men’s and women’s basketball, so it can pay to have a wide variety of bookies’ accounts to cover all the bets, for example with Marathonbet, SBO Bet etc as well the traditional bookies like Bet365.
Anyway, hopefully we’ll see a return to winning ways for the Basketball Geek next month.
We are less than two months away from having a full year’s proofing of this service which is good to see and it has certainly stood up very well during a long term trial despite the recent dip.
A trend we are noticing on the tips is that prices with Bet365 tend to hold up better than with other bookies. Betfair Sportsbook can also hold its prices pretty well, as with one of today’s tips that was quoted at 3.0 and is still available at those odds.
Some of the other bookies prices tend to get pushed down more noticeably as these are quite niche leagues being tipped in. Overall though we would say it should be possible to obtain the advised prices or close to them on most tips.
We remarked last time on the pressure on prices after tips are released and this is becoming more of an issue.
If we take today for example, there are three selections. Two of the tips are on over/under points totals and the lines have moved by a couple of points with the bookies available to us. That is equivalent to the odds having dropped on those selections.
On the third selection, the advised price is still available with B365 over four hours after the tip was sent, which is good.
So there are certain instances where you may not be able to obtain advised prices, but it doesn’t happen every time. Certainly having Pinnacle and B365 would be an advantage if following this service. Overall though the profits have been so good that even missing out on a few prices here and there, you should still be well ahead.
Given the excellent results and popularity of the service there is some pressure coming in on prices now, so it is advisable to get your bets on as soon as possible after tips are sent out.
Normally there are multiple bookies quoted so there are options for getting your bets on, even if you don’t have B365 which tends to be top price quite often.
One aspect we like about this service (besides the profits, obviously!) is that the staking is all one point level-stakes, so easy to follow and no artificial inflating of results like some other services.
Well worth checking out, great stuff from the Geek.
Just a quick word on prices with this service. Generally we have found prices hold up pretty well, although there are some instances where the odds drop a little after tips are released.
For example, looking at today’s tips, there are three bets still to run.
There are two longer shots – one advised at 9.0 that is currently available at 9.5 with Paddy Power and Betfair Sportsbook and one advised at 3.5 that is still available at those odds with B365, BF Sportsbook and Redzone.
At the same time though, the other tip is an overs bet advised at 1.86 which is currently a best price of 1.73.
So it’s not as if there is an instant crash in prices or anything like that, but prices can move in on certain tips so it’s a good idea to get your bets on as soon as you can.
Anyway, good progress from this service which has been very consistent so far – just what we like to see.
Bets come in leagues all over the world and in men’s and women’s basketball, so it can pay to have a wide variety of bookies’ accounts to cover all the bets, for example with Marathonbet, SBO Bet etc as well the traditional bookies like Bet365.
A solid if unspectacular performance for our review so far, let’s see if they can kick on and really get going for the rest of our trial.
Geek – One who passionately engages in one or more things to extreme levels.
That’s the definition of a geek according to Urban Dictionary and seems about right to us.
Our next trial is of a service which actually refers to themselves as a geek – The Basketball Geek to be specific – and given their results, the name appears quite apt.
This is clearly someone who “passionately engages in one or more things to extreme levels” – and that is betting on basketball!
The results are testament to their knowledge and engagement with the sport, with a profit of over 190 points made since they started proofing to Betting Gods in November 2019.
That has been achieved with a more-than-decent ROI of 19% and an excellent strike rate of 56%, meaning a high proportion of the bets so far have been winners.
Most impressive of all, the advised betting bank of 75 points would have grown by over 260%, which means a substantial return on capital to date.
In terms of consistency that looks rock solid as well, with all eight months being profitable so far.
We can’t say we’ve bet on basketball much over the years but as we always say, if a service can make a profit we don’t really mind what it bets on – it could be tiddlywinks for all we care! If it is making a consistent profit then that’s all we’re looking for really.
It will make a nice change to try out a new sport in many ways so we are looking forward to testing this service out. We started receiving tips on 14th July so will record results from then. Check back here for regular updates on how things are going.
Here at Honest Betting Reviews we like to keep an eye on services after we have completed our final review of them and not just forget about them.
This particularly applies to services that have received a positive rating, because it’s important to ensure they are still producing positive results and justifying the original stamp of approval we gave them.
In that spirit we are taking a look at Premium Boxing Tips again, which is a service we reviewed back in 2019 (please see below). They kindly kept on sending us the tips after our original review ended so we have been able to continue proofing their results.
So over two years later, how have they been getting on – and do they still deserve the PASSED rating we awarded them back in 2019?
Results Update
Well we are pleased to report that they have remained profitable, adding another 66 points profit since our original review ended.
That means in total they have made 183 points profit since we started proofing their tips, which is well worthy of a continued PASSED rating.
The long-term ROI stands at a more-than-respectable 14% and the strike rate is very good at 66%.
The subscription costs are very reasonable at just £19 per month or £208 per year so you can’t complain from that point of view.
Although the profit has been steady rather than spectacular over the last couple of years (as shown in the profit graph below), any profit at all is commendable and when you take into account their ROI and strike rate stats the service actually stacks up pretty well against any other in terms of long-term performance.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Having followed Premium Boxing Tips for going on for two and a half years now, we are happy to maintain our PASSED rating of it, as the service has made a profit of 183 points in total since we started following it with a high strike rate and solid ROI.
Well worth checking if you are into your boxing, or even if you aren’t!
Premium Boxing Tips is only the second boxing tipster we have reviewed here at Honest Betting Reviews. Whilst a lot of money is gambled on the big fights in boxing, it is still quite a niche sport in betting terms when compared to the “big two” of football and horse racing.
However, perhaps that is a good thing because it opens up the potential for angles to exploit and value to be found where others aren’t paying so much attention.
That certainly seems to be the case with Premium Boxing Tips in any event, with an excellent profit of 117 points made during our trial.
That was generated with a return on investment of 40%, which is absolutely top-notch.
The strike rate was also a very healthy 76%, meaning long winning streaks and short losing ones, so really there was nothing not to like about the service!
Here you can see how steady the progress was during the trial:
You can tell from their very detailed write-ups that accompany the tips they really know their stuff, with an exceptionally in-depth knowledge of boxing.
Most of the tips are accumulators of doubles, trebles or four-folds (which they refer to as parlays) and they advise which bookmaker to place the bets with – in most cases it is Bet365. A lot of the fights are not the really big clashes like Joshua v Povetkin etc but lesser-known figures.
Overall it’s a pretty simple service to follow though and with results like these there is no question that this receives a PASSED rating – with bells on!
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are normally sent out well before the fights are due to start, with some accas spread out over a few weeks. With an average of just 4 bets per week, there isn’t too much effort involved in following the tips either.
Availability of prices: We didn’t have too many problems getting the advised prices, most of the bets are advised with Bet365 but there are other bookies to choose from if you don’t have an account with them.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 76%, which is excellent and meant healthy bank growth during our trial.
Advised Betting Bank: We didn’t see any bank recommended but used a 250 point bank for the trial, which seemed adequate to us given the strike rate and staking.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs are very reasonable given the results achieved at just £19 per month or £208 per year.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
Boxing is still quite a niche sport in betting terms but that opens up opportunities to find value for those in the know and Premium Boxing Tipsclearly demonstrated during our trial that they are in the know.
With an excellent profit of 117 points at a return on investment of 40% this passes our trial with flying colours.
So if you fancy a bet on the boxing or just want to add a high quality tipster to your portfolio, then Premium Boxing Tips certainly fits the bill.
So far here at Honest Betting Reviews we have only reviewed one boxing tipster in the four years we have run the site.
So it’s nice today to have another tipster to review and that is the aptly-named Premium Boxing Tips.
This is a service that’s been going for over three years and the results published on their website for that time look very good.
In that time they’ve made over 440 points profit at a return on investment of over 15%.
What we really like about the results though is the steady profit graph. This is the kind of smooth progress we love to see from a tipster:
If they could repeat that over the course of our trial (and beyond) they would certainly be a tipster worth adding to the portfolio.
One of their expert tipsters says that:
“I’ve been an avid follower of boxing for many years. The advent of fights broadcast and downloadable over the Internet has allowed me to study the sport in greater depth. I started gambling on boxing seriously around 8 years ago.”
Well that dedication seems to be working well based on the results published on their website but let’s see how they perform under a live trial.
So we will run our normal three month trial of this service and will report back here regularly on how things are going.
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We have reached the end of our five month trial of Betmarkets.io and wanted to wrap up our thoughts on our review.
This is one of those situations where we are giving our verdict on two separate things really – one is the platform itself and the other is the tipsters we followed.
Before we get onto both of those though, just a quick recap on what Betmarkets is all about:-
Essentially Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform. It bills itself as the “Etoro for betting” and if you have ever used that service, it is a very apt description.
Basically you choose from a variety of tipsters across a range of sports, all with verified track records. You choose how much money you want to follow them with and then their bets are replicated automatically on your account.
You just pay 20% of any profit a bettor makes you, there are no other fees or subscriptions to pay.
Betmarkets Platform Review
So that’s what Betmarkets is all about. In terms of the platform itself, we think it’s a great idea and one of the most innovative breakthroughs in the betting world for quite some time.
As we said when opening our review:-
– It takes the time and effort out of following a group of tipsters as the bets are placed for you automatically
– No more missing bets because you didn’t get an e-mail/Telegram message in time
– No rushing to get the advised prices before the odds move against you
– Being able to select a portfolio of tipsters with verified track records
– Use of “sharp” bookmakers as well as exchanges
– All bets are tracked in real time so you can see exactly how each tipster is doing
And we can say having tested Betmarkets for five months, all of that is true. It operated very much as expected and is simple to use.
How it Works
Here’s a look at how it works and how you can go about selecting your tipsters (or “bettors” as they are called on Betmarkets).
Firstly, you can take a look at the various bettors on the platform by clicking “Discover” in the left-hand sidebar:
This brings up lists of the top tipsters based on their “featured” ones, “most copied,” “highest return” and so on.
Here’s a list of those bettors with the highest return (all time):
You can then click through and filter the tipsters by sport, category and timeframe.
Here are the top soccer tipsters for the last 12 months, for example:
It’s all very user-friendly and gives you a variety of options for choosing which tipsters you want to follow. From that point of view it couldn’t be much simpler really.
Once you have spent some time going through the tipsters and choosing which ones you would like to follow, you need to allocate some funds to following them.
Here is an example of the football tipster Grzegorz P:
You can choose how much you would like to allocate to the bettor in question and then you can choose your risk approach – 1.0x, 1.5x or 2.0x.
It then tells you the likely bet sizes and monthly profit/loss estimates.
So in the example above, if we allocated €100 to this bettor using a 1.0x approach, then our bet sizes would be between €1 and €3 and the estimated profit/loss would range between -€11.02 and +€17.48 per month.
If however we decided to go for a 2.0x risk approach, our bet sizes would be between €2 and €6 and the estimated profit/loss would range between -€22.05 and +€34.95 per month.
This is a feature we really like about Betmarkets. Firstly the fact that all this information is displayed clearly so you have an idea of how much you are going to be risking and what the range of returns might be.
Secondly, that their allocations are fairly conservative. We have used some copy trading apps in the financial trading world which allow very high risk in relation to the funds you have, leading to a strong likelihood your bank will get wiped out. They do this because they take the other side of your trades, effectively betting against you. So they are quite happy to see you go bust.
This isn’t the case with Betmarkets – quite the opposite in fact. They make profit when you do, i.e. when a bettor makes a profit for a given period. So they have an interest in making sure safe risk levels are used and people don’t wipe out their banks too easily.
In terms of how the placement of bets worked, this all seemed to operate very smoothly and we didn’t see any issues of bets failing to be placed or anything like that.
The only issue we did experience was noted in one of our review updates below, with one of the bettors Danny chasing his losses and becoming somewhat erratic. This could happen with any tipster of course, but is perhaps worse on a platform like this because the copying is automatic whereas if you were following a tipster manually you might notice a bit earlier.
In any event, it seems to have been an isolated incident and didn’t make much of in impact on our overall experience on Betmarkets. If you have a portfolio of 5-10 bettors (or more) with an even allocation spread across them then hopefully something like this shouldn’t affect you too badly.
OVERALL VERDICT – PASSED
Overall we would say we were very impressed with the Betmarkets platform. It’s an impressive piece of technology and takes a lot of the hassle out of following tipsters. It gets a definite thumbs up from us.
Tipster Results
Looking at the results of the tipsters we followed, sadly it wasn’t such a positive story. From a starting bank of €1000, we finished €291 down.
We followed six bettors in total and their individual records were as follows:-
Bettor
Sport
Profit (€)
Filip H.
Football
-67.68
Radek M
Football
-49.53
Nishi K.
Tennis
-13.66
Mikel S.
Esports
-6.39
Neil M.
Football
-47.82
Danny D.
Esports
-106.22
So as you can see quite a sorry tale, with all six bettors making a loss.
In that sense, we would probably fail these tipsters, although Mikel S didn’t do too badly and in fairness to Neil M, he operates his own tipping service (which we have reviewed previously and given a strong passed rating to), the prices he obtained for Betmarkets were worse than those his members would get, meaning these results don’t accurately reflect his tipping skills. In fact we understand Neil is no longer on Betmarkets for this reason.
In any event, it was quite disappointing to lose nearly a third of our betting bank on Betmarkets. Perhaps we were just unlucky in the bettors we chose, or weren’t very good at picking them 🙂 Although we did spend a lot of time going through betting markets so maybe we shouldn’t be so hard on ourselves.
Anyway, hopefully if you have a go on Betmarkets you will have a bit more luck in the bettors you follow. For us it didn’t work out sadly but we will keep an eye on Betmarkets for any really promising tipsters who crop up on there and may re-enter the platform as some point in the future.
Sadly this trial is not going as we had hoped. The platform is a great piece of technology, it just looks like we’ve been a bit unlucky with the tipsters we’ve chosen to follow.
Interestingly however we’ve seen Jon Roberts of Football Advisor has now joined the platform as a tipster. Jon is a well-respected figure in the industry and we have positively reviewed two of his services – Predictology and Football Advisor Lays – so it is good to see him on Betmarkets.
We imagine they will continue to add prominent tipsters to their list as the platform grows because it is a great tool for bettors as we say. Just need our own results to turn around soon…
Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform where you can automatically copy the bets of professional gamblers. It can be thought of as an “Etoro of the betting world.”
Sadly since we joined the platform in December it’s just been steady losses for us, with a further €145 lost since our last update.
That means we are now €202 down for our trial overall from an initial deposit of €1000.
Half of the losses so far are down to a bettor called Danny, who it seems went somewhat off the rails. We received an email from Betmarkets on the 3rd February stating:-
“As the subject describes, this email is about Danny’s latest behaviour within our platform. Throughout the weekend, Danny showed signals of tilting / chasing his recent losses after a period of poor performance (although his overall results are still above average): he placed bets straight after losing others and his amount staked per bet increased as well.
This is not the first time this happened with Danny, so we decided to temporarily exclude him from the list of bettors that new users can copy and we recommend you to stop copying him for the time being considering the recent behaviour.”
We took their advice and stopped copying Danny, replacing him with Radek M.
It is obviously disappointing this occurred and it could happen with any tipster, although perhaps if you were following tips manually in the normal way you might have spotted it sooner.
Anyway, hopefully that is an isolated incident and none of the other bettors will engage in such behaviour. Let’s also hope for a swift turnaround in fortunes for the bettors we are copying.
Betmarkets is a tipster copy platform where you can automatically copy the bets of professional gamblers. It can be thought of as an “Etoro of the betting world.”
It’s been a bit of a slow start to our trial of Betmarkets however, with a loss of €45 made so far after one month of following five bettors on their platform.
That loss is from a starting bank of €1000, so is “no biggie” as they say, representing just 4.5% of the bank.
With a review like this you are kind of looking at two things – one is the performance of the bettors you choose to follow and the other is the platform itself.
Whilst the performance of the bettors hasn’t been great so far, we have to say the platform itself is excellent and has worked exactly as it should with bets placed automatically and results updated in real time. The information is presented in a very clear, user-friendly way so you can see things like betting history, ROI, open bets etc at the touch of a button.
We do see big potential in Betmarkets in the long run, we just need the bettors we are following to get going and start making some profits.
We are starting a review today of an exciting and innovative new betting product that we think is one of the most disruptive breakthroughs we have seen in the betting world in quite some time.
The service in question is called Betmarkets and essentially it is a tipster copy platform. It bills itself as the “Etoro for betting” and if you have ever used that service, it is a very apt description.
Basically you choose from a variety of tipsters across a range of sports, all with verified track records. You choose how much money you want to follow them with and then their bets are replicated automatically on your account.
Here are Betmarkets explaining the concept themselves:-
As they say, you just pay 20% of any profit a bettor makes you, there are no other fees or subscriptions to pay.
We really like this idea for a number of reasons:-
– It takes the time and effort out of following a group of tipsters as the bets are placed for you automatically
– No more missing bets because you didn’t get an e-mail/Telegram message in time
– No rushing to get the advised prices before the odds move against you
– Being able to select a portfolio of tipsters with verified track records
– Use of “sharp” bookmakers as well as exchanges
– All bets are tracked in real time so you can see exactly how each tipster is doing
We have been waiting for some technology like this to come along for a while and whilst there have been one or two attempts at it previously, this looks like the real deal and we are very impressed by what we seen of the platform so far.
So we have deposited €1,000 into Betmarkets and selected five bettors to follow based on their 12-month and overall records. A couple of these names were already familiar to us from other services we follow so we know these are top tipsters.
We are quite hopeful this can turn into a form of “passive income” for us, producing regular returns on auto-pilot without us having to do anything.
That’s the dream anyway, we will see if it turns into reality during our review! As usual we will provide regular updates on how things are going here.
Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a relative newcomer to the betting scene, with bouts being priced up by the bookies only fairly recently compared to sports like horse racing and football, which people have been betting on for over a century.
As such, there are relatively few tipsters covering MMA but a few have started to spring up in recent times.
We started this review during the original covid lockdown last year, as MMA was one of the first sports to get going again after everything shut down.
It’s quite a low volume service with only a few bets per week and some weeks with no bets when there is no MMA action going on.
So we ended up running the trial for a whole year to get a good enough sample size of bets and to take into account the reduced schedule due to covid.
After 12 months the service finished with a profit of 22 points, with a decent strike rate of 60% but a low ROI of 3%.
They were actually doing much better than that earlier on in our trial, going around 70 points up at one stage:
Things tailed off somewhat from that high, but they always stayed in profit throughout our trial.
Overall it was a reasonable effort, but obviously not something to get overly excited about after a year of tips.
In the end we think this narrowly deserves a PASSED rating, in that it still finished in the green and is the first profitable MMA/UFC service we have completed a review of, so may be of interest to those who follow the sport and are looking for some tips.
Service Breakdown
Ease of use: The tips are provided by e-mail, normally in the morning of that night’s action. There are normally just 5-6 bets per week, mostly at the weekends so it’s a fairly simple service to follow.
Availability of prices: We didn’t notice any issues in terms of obtaining the advised prices.
Strike rate: The strike rate for the trial was 60%, which is a good level and meant plenty of winning bets throughout the trial.
Advised Betting Bank: We couldn’t see a specific betting bank recommended for following this service but used a 100 point bank for the purposes of this review and that was never in jeopardy.
Subscription costs: The subscription costs at the time of writing are free for the first 10 days then £19 per month.
OVERALL VERDICT: PASSED
We followed The Notorious Tipster – UFC for a full year to get a really good look at the service and have a large enough sample size of tips to judge it properly.
After our 12 month trial it finished with a profit of 22 points, which isn’t bad. We always say any service that can generate a long-term profit is worthy of praise and this has managed to do that, so we narrowly award it a PASSED rating.
For those with an interest in MMA/UFC it could be worth checking out.
It is coming up to a year since we started this review so will be looking to wrap things up shortly. We normally like to have at least 100 bets – and preferably 200 – as a sample size before completing a review and we have achieved that now with over 200 bets recorded for our trial.
This trial started off very promisingly going over 65 points up at one stage but has hit a bit of a slide in recent times, so we hope they can turn things around and get back to winning ways again soon.
As mentioned in our recent update for another MMA service we are reviewing, there hasn’t been much action lately as the UFC took an extended break over xmas/new year.
Things are back and rolling now though so hopefully they can kick on and continue the good results achieved for our trial to date.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as apparently Tipstrr don’t have all the fights available.
Anyway, this has been quite an extensive review with over seven months of results so we will be looking to wrap it up shortly.
We have been impressed with the consistency of this service so far, with all but one month being profitable and the one month that wasn’t profitable less than a point was lost so you could call it break even really.
That consistency is what we like to see and long may it continue for them.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
One of the nice things about this service is the high strike rate, with a large number of the bets so far having been successful. Just a small number of bets each week make it straightforward to follow too. All good stuff.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
It’s been a very smooth ride so far with this service and the strike rate has been impressive. Long may it continue.
Just a reminder that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available.
Either way though good to see the excellent results over the last month, let’s see if that continues.
Just a note to say that our results are slightly different to those recorded on the Tipstrr website as according to James who runs the service, sometimes Tipstrr doesn’t have all the fights available. He says he always raise a ticket and sometimes they fix it and sometimes not. However, our results reflect the exact tips we received by e-mail from James so we are happy to record those and will continue to do so. We hope that Tipstrr can fix the issues at their end so they are able to record the correct results.
Anyway, a solid start here and hopefully they can kick on.
It’s been a solid start to our trial of MMA expert The Notorious Tipster – UFC, with a profit of 7 points made since we started following the tips at the beginning of May.
Just a note to say the staking we have used for our results is that given out by the tipster in his e-mails to us, which is a little different to the staking listed on the Tipstrr website, who we believe have a standardised staking system across their platform.
Either way the results have been good to this point so let’s look for more of the same going forward.
One of the first sports due to come back after stopping for the coronavirus pandemic is mixed martial arts – specifically the UFC. They have three events planned for 9th, 13th and 16th May in Florida and all eyes will be on them to see if they can make it work with the health protocols they have put in place. The schedule starts with UFC 249 which has some top-quality fights lined up.
So it couldn’t be a better time to start a review of a UFC tipping service. The tipster we are taking a look at today is called The Notorious Tipster – UFC and comes from the Tipstrr platform.
Although they have only been tipping on the platform for a short time, their results look impressive so far with a profit made in each of the three months since they began.
The strike rate to date is a very healthy 70% and the return on investment strong at 26.5%.
Staking varies between 2 and 6 points and tips are normally sent out on the morning of the fight around 10am (UK time). Most of the tips are on the outright fight winner which makes it pretty simple to follow.
The good news is that you can currently get a 10-day free trial of the service which covers the three big fixtures coming up.
With MMA becoming more popular around the world there is also more interest in betting on it so it’s good to see some promising tipsters on the sport emerging too.
We will be watching this service (and another we have lined up to review) closely, particularly now when it’s one of the first major sports to get going again!
As ever we will record results here so check back in to see how they’re getting on.
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